{"id":10960,"date":"2010-01-20T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:57:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-20T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:57:49","slug":"what-really-happened-in-ma-progressives-stayed-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/20\/what-really-happened-in-ma-progressives-stayed-home\/","title":{"rendered":"What Really Happened in MA. Progressives stayed home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanna know what really happened in MA on Tuesday.<br \/>\n<br \/>The same voters who buried McCain didnt vote this time.<\/p>\n<p>Almost million MORE folks went to the polls in MA in 2008 and all of them voted for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Brown got the same vote total as McCain, but Coakley got 900k fewer votes.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dem turnout and independent turnout just disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>MA Election results &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>2010 election &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,168,000\t brown &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,059,000\t coakley &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp; 20,000 others &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>2,247,000 &nbsp;total<\/p>\n<p>2008 election &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,109,000\t mccain &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,904,000\t obama &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; 100,000 others &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>3,113,000 total &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brown wins with about the same vote as McCain got. &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>Where were the 900k or so voters that didnt show up at all and who just a year ago gave Obama the win?<br \/>\n<br \/> Brown ran identical numbers to McCain, but Coakley drew 900k fewer. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dems and independents just didnt turn out. It is as Howard Dean tried to say but then didnt have the data to support it&#8211;Progressives are mad at Obama for talking tough on Corporations, HMOs, Big Rx, and Wall Street. But then playing kissy face with them.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 1.5 million Dems, .5 million Goopers, and 2 million no party in MA. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanna know what really happened in MA on Tuesday.<br \/>\n<br \/>The same voters who buried McCain didnt vote this time.<\/p>\n<p>Almost million MORE folks went to the polls in MA in 2008 and all of them voted for Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Brown got the same vote total as McCain, but Coakley got 900k fewer votes.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dem turnout and independent turnout just disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>MA Election results &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>2010 election &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,168,000\t brown &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,059,000\t coakley &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; &nbsp; 20,000 others &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>2,247,000 &nbsp;total<\/p>\n<p>2008 election &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,109,000\t mccain &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>1,904,000\t obama &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/> &nbsp; 100,000 others &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>3,113,000 total &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brown wins with about the same vote as McCain got. &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>Where were the 900k or so voters that didnt show up at all and who just a year ago gave Obama the win?<br \/>\n<br \/> Brown ran identical numbers to McCain, but Coakley drew 900k fewer. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dems and independents just didnt turn out. It is as Howard Dean tried to say but then didnt have the data to support it&#8211;Progressives are mad at Obama for talking tough on Corporations, HMOs, Big Rx, and Wall Street. But then playing kissy face with them.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 1.5 million Dems, .5 million Goopers, and 2 million no party in MA. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8039,1287,1664],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-8039","tag-1287","tag-1664"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2QM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}